When I was a kid growing up in the 1980s I was a bad asthmatic who spent many nights in a hospital bed. I met many respiratory therapists (RT), and got to know some of them really well. This experience inspired me to become an RT. No one would have more empathy for these kids than myself.
Yet once I became an RT in 1997, I noticed something stunning: there were no asthmatic kids for me to empathise with. I know none "really well." I take care of an occasional asthmatic kid, but on...
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